Quotes about Society
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
— John Updike
We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
— William Howard Taft
Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.
— Bill Gates
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
— Thomas Jefferson
Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.
— Aesop
Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
— George Washington
In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money or their economy or their form of government, be conservative.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I will raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against this Communistic idea that the Government will take care of us all, and everything belongs to the government. It is wrong!
— David O. McKay
The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.
— Mark Twain
Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.
— Ronald Reagan